Paul Lunde & Justin Wintle says "The great joy of proverbs is precisely
their breath of application" A dictionary of Arabic
and Islamic Proverbs.
Action
Actions speak louder than
words. Arabic
In haste is regret, in
slowness peace. Tunisien
Advice
Your brother is who gives
you honest advice.
If you wanted obedience
command with what is possible.
Beauty
God is beautiful and
cannot but love beauty.
Beauty is beauty, drunk or sober. Moorish
Beauty is skin deep.
The one who you love is the one who is beautiful. Turkish
Beauty Passes, wisdom remains. Turkish
Destiny
No water can wash away the destiny written on a man's forehead.
Moroccan
Only three things in life are certain birth, death
and change. Arabic
Discipline
Where the teacher strikes roses will grow. Turkish
Evil
Leave evil, it will leave you.
Pick the lesser of the two
evils.
If you oppress who is below
you then you won't be safe from the punishment of who is above you.
Experience
Experimenting is the great
science. Arabic
One people's misfortune
are another's people's instruction. Lebanese
Experience are the glasses of the mind
Generosity
Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts.
Be generous to a generous
person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on
you.
Thank who gives you and
give who thanks you.
The best generosity is
giving without being asked.
The generous is never
satisfied with riches. Arabic
Good Manners
Good manners is the
greatest friend.
Ideals
If you reach for the
highest of ideals, you shouldn't settle for less than the stars.
Have patience and you'll
get what you want.
Intelligence
The greatest poverty is
the lack of intelligence.
Smart people are
blessed.
The smarter you get the
less you speak.
For smart people, signs
can replace words.
Human thinks and God
plans.
An Arab's intelligence is
in his eyes. Arabic
In the desert of life the wise person travels by caravan, while the
fool prefers to travel alone.
Ignorance
Ignorance is the death of
the living.
Knowledge
Forgetting is the plague
of knowledge.
Learning
A scholar who does not produce is like a cloud that doesn't rain.
Arabic
Learning is a treasury whose keys are queries.
Lies
Avoid the company of a liar.
And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.
Lies are the plague of
speech.
Lying lets you live one
night, the truth makes you live forever.
Truth builds, lies
destroy. Arabic
Movement
Movement is a
blessing.
Power
Unity is power.
A problem is solved when
it gets tougher.
Proverbs
Proverbs are the lamp of speech. Arabic
Purity
If the heart is empty, the
rest will soon abandon you too.
The purest people are the
ones with good manners.
Silence
If talk is silver then
silence is gold.
Some silence is more
informative than talk.
The best medicine for the
heart is silence. Arabic
Stupidity
Stupidity is a disease
without a medicine.
Success
Success depends on a
man's reputation, not his soul. Turkish
Truth
Truth is the salt of
mankind. Arabic
The image of friendship
is truth. Arabic
A known mistake is better than an unknown truth. Arabic
Women
A single woman destroyed
Paradise. Arabic
Intelligence is the
ornament of every serious woman. Lebanese
A fat woman is a blanket for winter.
Even a one eyed guy will wink at a beautiful woman.
Work
Work is prayer. Arabic
Links
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arabic_proverbs
www.worldofquotes.com/proverb/Arabic/1/
www.proz.com/topic/21105
http://www.chara.gsu.edu/~gudehus/Quotations/
www.sendwisecards.com/author/quotes-by-Arabic-Proverb.php
www.hope.edu/bandstra/RTOT/CH15/CH15_1.HTM
www.proverbs.in/
www.ottomansouvenir.com/Turkish_Proverbs/Turkish_Proverbs_6.htm
www.business-with-turkey.com/tourist-guide/turkish_proverbs.shtml
www.jesuslist.com/blog/quotes/arabic-proverbs
http://oneproverb.net/arabicmid.html
http://noetic.oathill.com/Quotes/provsay.html
www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/196901/the.cream.of.wisdom.htm
www.arabicfonts.com/decoration.asp
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